PRESENTED  BY  THE 

NEW  TREMONT  HOUSE 

Corner  Michigan  Ay.  and  Congress  St., 

THE   ONLY 

FIRNT-CI,A«8  HOTKI, 

In  the  South  Division,  and  the  only  Hotel   in   the  city  haying  a 
PA  SSmrO  KR  EL'EJ  rA  TOIL 

J.  g.  DRAKE,  Proprietor. 


FULL    ACCOUNT 


OF  THE 


GREAT    FIRE, 


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NEW  BUSINESS  DIRECTORY 


LEADING  HOUSES. 

PUBLISHED  FOR  THE  NEW  TREMONT  HOUSE, 

rBy  the  Northwestern  Publishing  Ccmymm/,  Chicago. 


GILES,  BROTHER  &  C», 

AGENTS   von  tut: 

ELGIN  AND  UNITED  STATES  WATCHES. 


HAVE    OPENED    AT 


384    Wabash    Av. 

With  a  FULL  LINE  OF  GOODS. 
ORDERS  PROMPTLY  FILLED. 
With  many  fine  goods  saved,  and 
through  their  New  York  and  Parisian 
Houses,  they  can  offer  all  their  for- 
mer inducements  to  Purchasers. 


J.  W.  FOX  &  BROTHER 


Manufacturers  of  the  Celebrated  Brands 


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*'La  Corona"  and  ^Chamber  of  Commerce," 

V. 

And  IMPORTERS  of  the  Bes1  and  Choices! 

Havana  Cigars 


In  the  city,  respectfully  solicit  the  attention  of  the  public   to   their   new 
stock,  at  their  new  location,  under  the  New  Trer^oiit  ilouse, 

Cor.  Michigan  Av.  and  Congress  St. 


TO  THE  PUBLIC 


The  publishers  of  this  little  work  propose  to  give  to  the 
public  as  full  and  complete  a  history  of  the  great  fire  as  pos- 
sible to  collect.  In  the  first  place,  we  will  place  before  our 
readers  the  report  from  every  newspaper  in  the  Union,  a 
record  which,  independent  of  the  interest  that  surrounds  it 
at  present,  will  be  in  future  years  of  untold  value.  The  de- 
mand for  tlxe  different  issues  has  been  so  enormous  that  few 
copies  will  be  left  for  future  reference. 


.x?  Tin?  nonxT 


AT  FIRE. 


— sjj-  ^^S*^*  ^^"* 


THE    NIGHT   OF  FIRE. 


STATEMENT    OF    AN    EYE-WITNESS. 

The  story  of  the  great  fire  in  Chicago  will  never  be  told.  Language 
is  impotent  to  portray  the  horrors  of  that  one  night  of  flame  that,  in  the 
short  space  of  twenty  hours,  reduced  one  of  the  wealthiest  and  proudest 
cities  on  the  Western  continent  to  one  bleak,  black  mass  of  ruins,  and  her 
most  affluent  citizens  and  merchant  princes  to  a  condition  of  beggary. 
But  one  week  ago  it  would  have  been  regarded  as  the  dream  of  a  lunatic, 
had  any  one  predicted  the  fearful  destruction  that  has  been  wrought  by 
the  fire-demon  in  the  great  Yfestern  metropolis.  Devastation  so  terrible, 
ruin  so  complete,  never  has  been  seen  since  the  palaces  and  mosques  of 
Constantinople  were  swept  from  the  face  of  the  earth  by  the  terrible 
scourge  that  marked  an  era  in  the  history  of  the  Middle  Ages.  And  it  is 
to  be  doubted  if  even  that  scourge  was  marked  with  such  wide-spread  de- 
struction, such  awe-inspiring  sublimity,  and  such  paralyzing  results  as 
characterized  the  destruction  of  Chicago.  It  was  reserved  for  those  who 
were  in  that  city  on  the  night  of  Sunday  last,  and  the  succeeding  day,  to 
witness  the  most  dazzling  and  appalling  spectacle  ever  beheld  by  mortal 
eyes;  a  spectacle  which  will  be  held  in  remembrance  as  long  as  memory 
holds  its  sway,  Poe  must  have  had  a  conception  of  such  a  night  when  he 
wrote  his  famous  stanza  of  "The  Bells": 

"  Hear  the  loud  alarum  bells — 

Brazen  bells ! 
What  a  tale  of  terror,  now,  their  turbulency  tells ! 
In  the  startled  ear  of  night 
How  they  scream  out  their  affright ! 
Too  much  horrified  to  speak, 
They  can  only  shriek,  shriek, 
Out  of  tune, 
In  a  clamorous  appeal  to  the  mercy  of  the  fire, 
In  a  mad  expostulation  with  the  deaf  and  frantic  fire, 
Leaping  higher,  higher,  higher, 
With  a  desperate  desire 
And  a  resolute  endeavor, 
Now — now  to  sit  or  never, 
By  the  side  of  the  pale-faced  moon. 
Oh,  the  bells,  bells,  bells, 
What  a  tale  their  terror  telle 
Of  despair. 
How  they  clang,  and  clash,  and  roar, 
What  a  horror  they  outpour 
On  the  bosom  of  the  palpitating  air  ! " 


THE    FIBST    FIRE. 

On  Saturday  night  the  immense  lumber  and  coal-yards  lying  on  the 
west  side  of  the  river  between  Van  Buren  and  Adams  streets  north  and 
south,  and  between  Clinton  street  and  the  river  east  and  west,  comprising 
four  entire  blocks,  were  devastated  by  fire.  In  addition  to  the  lumber 
and  coal-yards  the  district  contained  from  fifty  to  sixty  small  frame  houses, 
several  manufactories  and  freight  houses  belonging  to  the  Pittsburg,  Fort 
Wayne  and  Chicago  Railroad  Company.  The  fire  was  checked  at  Adams 
street,  through  the  almost  superhuman  efforts  of  the  firemen,  who  labored 
until  late  in  the  day  of  Sunday.  The  conflagration  had  been  one  of  the 
most  destructive  in  the  history  of  Chicago,  but  it  proved  to  be  but  slight 
foretaste  of  what  was  in  store  for  her. 

THE  ALARM. 

Scarcely  had  the  engines  returned  to  their  houses  and  the  wearied  fire- 
men sought  a  little  rest,  ere  the  Court  House  bell  pealed  out  an  alarm  of 
fire  from  a  section  of  the  city  but  three  blocks  south  of  the  one  on  the 
previous  night.  Five  minutes  later,  at  half-past  ten  o'clock,  a  general 
alarm  was  sounded,  quickly  followed  by  a  second  and  third.  Few  of  the 
citizens  had  retired  to  rest,  and  the  lurid  glare  that  lighted  the  sky  in  the 
direction  indicated  by  the  alarm,  gave  them  warning  that  the  horrors  of 
the  previous  night  were  likely  to  be  far  surpassed.  The  fire  department 
were  promptly  on  hand  at  the  scene  of  the  conflagration.  It  was  ascer- 
,  tained  that  it  originated  in  a  barn  at  the  corner  of  De  Koven  and  Jefferson 
streets,  and  was  spreading  with  frightful  rapidity  to  the  north  and  north- 
east. A  high  wind  prevailed  at  the  time,  and  carried  the  burning  embers 
far  into  the  heart  of  the  city,  The  small  frame  houses  in  the  vicinity 
were  soon  wrapped  in  flames,  and  went  down  in  a  cloud  of  smoke  and  fire 
with  a  rapidity  that  almost  surpasses  belief.  The  firemen  had  stationed 
themselves  northward  of  the  fire,  but  were  driven  from  their  position  time 
and  again.  Scarcely  could  they  find  time  to  bring  a  stream  of  water  to 
bear  upon  the  buildings  ere  the  flames  were  upon  them,  and  they  were 
obliged  to  retire  still  further.  Stubbornly  they  fought  every  inch  of 
ground  with  the  fire,  but  that  element,  which  is  so  faithful  a  servant  but 
so  relentless  a  master,  had  gained  the  upper  hand  of  them,  and  they  soon 
found  that  it  was  useless  to  contest  the  ground  in  that  direction.  Every 
energy  was  then  bent  to  prevent  its  spread.  It  was  hoped  that  when  the 
district  burned  on  the  previous  night  was  reached,  the  fire  would  die  out 
of  its  own  volition  ;  but  no  fears  were  felt  that  it  would  leap  the  river  to 
the  south  side.  House  after  house  was  swallowed  up  by  the  fiery  monster, 
pile  after  pile  of  lumber  was  transformed  into  a  heap  of  living  flame,  and 
the  firemen,  baffled  at  every  point,  were  obliged  to  fly  for  their  lives. 

THE    LEAP    OF    THE    RIVER. 

All  seemed  lost  on  the  west  side,  when  a  new  horror  presented  itself. 
A  huge  tongue  of  flame  leaped  across  the  river  at  Van  Buren  street,  and 
almost  simultaneously  a  large  row  of  wooden  buildings  was  enveloped  in 
flames.  At  the  same  instant  the  gas  works,  on  Adams  sireet,  caught  fire, 
and  in  less  time  than  it  takes  to  tell  the  story  the  old  armory  became  a 
huge  pyramid  of  flame.  The  grand  old  structure,  that  had  stood  the  per- 
ils of  many  a  year  and  had  been  an  ever-present  menace  to  evil-doers, 
crumbled  to  fragments  beneath  the  touch  of  the  fire-demon  and  disap- 
peared from  sight  forever. 

THE    SPECTATORS. 

By  this  time  probably  a  hundred  thousand  spectators  had  assembled 
in  the  vicinity  of  the  fire,  hurrying  hither  and  thither,  and  gazing  with 
awe-stmok  faces  at  the  terrible  devastation  spread  out  before  them. 


ITS  PROGRESS. 

From  the  armory  and  the  gas-works  the  flames  spread  to  the  wide 
expanse  of  shanties  and  frame  buildings  in  the  far-famed  and  odorous 
neighborhood  of  Conley's  Patch  and  Wells  street,  licking  up  everything 
in  its  track  with  its  insatiable  maw.  Like  a  deadly  simoon  the  cinders, 
smoke  and  fire  sped  along  the  street,  around  the  corners  and  over  the 
business  part  of  the  city.  La  Salle  street,  the  financial  head-quarters  of 
the  city,  was  reached,  and  building  after  building  burst  out  in  flames. 
Like  a  torrent  the  mad  demon  swept  onward.  One  after  another  the 
gigantic  gaanite  piles  crumbled  to  dust  and  fell  crashing  into  ruins. 
Bryan  Block,  the  Insurance  Building,  Oriental  Hall,  the  finest  Masonic 
building  in  the  world,  and  Farwell  Hall,  caught  fire. 

THE  DEATH  KNELL. 

Then  the  Court  House  bell  pealed  forth.  Clang,  clang,  went  the 
mammoth  bell,  its  tones  rising  far  above  the  din  of  the  streets,  the  roar  of 
the  devastating  demon,  and  the  howling  of  the  wild  tornado.  Peal  after 
peal  rent  the  air,  striking  terror  to  every  heart,  for  we  then  knew  that  all 
was  lost;  that  Chicago,  the  proudest  city  of  the  continent,  wae  doomed  to 
destruction.  Louder  and  louder  rang  the  boll,  and  faster  and  faster  sped 
the  hell  of  fire.  Men,  women  and  children  rushed  through  the  streets, 
frantically  endeavoring  to  save  a  few  of  their  personal  effects  from  the 
devouring  element.  All  was  confusion,  uproar  and  flame.  Every  face 
was  blanehed  with  terror  as  the  rapacious  monster  leaped  and  galloped 
forward,  destroying  with  a  breath  the  finest  creations  of  human  ingenuity, 
devouring  at  one  fell  swoop  the  strongest  and  most  durable  walls,  and  toy- 
ing with  a  hideous  playfulness  with  buildings  that  had  been  built  ex- 
pressly to  resist  his  utmost  power. 

THE    RELEASE    OF    THE    PRISONERS. 

When  it  seemed  inevitable  that  the  Court  House  must  fall,  the  doors 
of  the  prison  in  the  basement  wore  thrown  open,  and  the  criminals  there 
confined  were  released.  Like  devils  iucarnate,  they  rushed  pell  mell  into 
the  street,  yelling  and  cursing  with  the  utmost  fiendishness.  Hastening 
to  the  district  threatened  by  the  conflagration,  they  commenced  a  series  of 
outrages  almost  unparalled  in  the  history  of  crime.  Reinforced  by  all  the 
lawless  element  in  the  city,  they  spared  nothing  that  afforded  opportunity 
for  plunder.  Houses  and  stores  were  broken  open  and  rifled  of  their  val- 
uable contents ;  men  and  women,  carrying  off  goods  from  their  homes, 
were  assailed  and  robbed,  and  others  were  knocked  down  and  relieved  of 
their  watches  and  pocket-books.  The  emergency  that  called  for  the  release 
of  these  men  was  great,  and  much  as  the  peoplo  suffered  from  their  dep- 
redations, they  have  no  word  of  complaint  to  offer  against  the  authorities 
who  chose  rather  to  turn  them  loose  than  to  suffer  them  to  meet  a  horrible 
death  in  one  grand  funeral  pyre. 

THE  BUENING  OF  THE  COURT  H0U6B. 

From  Farwell  Hall  the  flames  darted  oyer  an  entire  block,  communi- 
cating with  the  dome  of  the  Court  House.  Almost  immediately  it  was  a 
mass  of  fire.  The  flames  leaped,  and  danced,  and  caroused  about,  darting 
far  into  the  heavens.  Tho  imagination  cannot  conceire  a  spectacle  more 
grand.  Words  fail  to  describe  its  sublimity,  and,  once  seen,  it  can  never 
be  forgotten.  In  ten  minutes  the  entire  structure,  built  in  tho  most  mas- 
sive style,  presented  the  appearance  of  a  massive  furaaco,  superheated  with 
the  fires  of  hell.  At  seven  minutes  before  two  o'clock  tho  dome  was  seen  t« 
sway  in  tho  wind.  It  rooked  U  and  fro  for  a  few  moments,  and  then  fell 
down,  down,  threo  hundred  feet,  into  the  keart  of  tli«  building,  with  a 
deafening  cra-sh  ihikt  resouad(*d  ajl  over  the  mtj. 


OTHER    PROMINENT    BUILDINGS. 

In  the  meantime  the  fire-king  reigned  with  unabated  fury  elsewhere. 
The  block  of  buildings  intervening  between  the  Court  House  and  Farwell 
Hall  had  been  seized  upon  and  were  rapidly  devoured.  Pope's  Block,  the 
Board  of  Trade  building,  Smith  &  Nixon's  hall,  and  other  enormous 
structures  of  stone  and  brick  were  speedily  reduced  to  ruins.  On  the 
west  side  of  La  Salle  street  the  immense  insurance  buildings  shared  a  like 
fate. 

A    DESPERATE    REMEDY. 

At  this  point,  it  having  been  evident  that  all  ordinary  means  of  fight- 
ine  fire  were  useless,  another  destroying  agency,  gunpowdor,  was  brought 
into  requisition,  in  the  hope  that  by  leveling  a  few  blocks  to  the  ground 
the  course  of  the  destroyer  would  be  stayed.  Half  a  dozen  barrels  of 
powder  were  placed  under  the  Union  Bank  Buiding,  on  the  corner  of  La  Salle 
and  Washington  streets,  an  explosion  followed,  and  it  was  razed  to  the 
ground  in  an  instant.  But  the  remedy,  desperate  as  it  was,  had  been  ap- 
plied too  late  The  flames  had  already  reached  the  Merchant's  Insurance 
building,  in  which  the  telegraph  office  was  located,  and  before  the  heroic 
men  who  were  so  fiercely  battling  to  subdue  the  fire  could  change  their 
base  of  operations,  had  extended  over  the  entire  block,  and  reached  far 
toward  the  main  river  to  the  northward.  From  that  point  nothing  could 
be  done  to  impede  its  course,  and  the  entire  district  west  of  La  Salle 
street,  and  from  Harrison  street  on  the  south  to  the  river  on  the  north, 
was  a  gigantic  sea  of  fire.  Every  structure  was  under  the  dominion  of 
the  fire-fiend,  and  fell  into  dust  and  ashes  at  the  magic  touch. 

THE    SHERMAN    HOUSE. 

From  the  Court  House  to  the  Sherman  House  was  but  a  step,  and  long 
before  the  dome  fell  the  latter  structure  was  afire  from  roof  to  foundation. 
The  guests  had  all  escaped,  some  of  them  carrying  their  trunks  upon  their 
shoulders,  while  others  had  barely  time  to  escape  with  their  lives.  Those 
who  remained  in  the  vain  endeavor  to  save  whatever  of  value  remained  in 
the  house,  had  to  fly  for  their  lives  before  the  tornado  of  fire,  and  not  a 
few,  it  is  said,  perished  in  the  awful  holocaust.  Onward  sped  the  confla- 
gration, licking  up  everything  in  its.  track.  The  Tremont  House,  the 
Adams  House,  the  Great  Union  Depot,  the  long  Blocks  of  palatial  stores 
on  Lake  and  South  Water  streets,  alike  went  down  before  the  awful  judg- 
ment of  Heaven.  Nothing  was  left  in  its  track  but  the  charred  and  smoul- 
dering walls  of  what  had  been  less  than  twenty-four  hours  before  Chi- 
cago's proudest  boast. 

THE    PACIFIC     HOTEL. 

While  the  conflagration  had  been  raging  in  the  track  indicated,  those 
located  further  south  had  not  escaped.  Another  current  had  swept  further 
east,  that  was  quite  as  disastrous.  The  new  Pacific  Hotel,  nearly  com- 
pleted at  a  cost  of  almost  a  million  dollars,  and  located  on  the  corner  of 
Jackson  and  Clark  streets,  had  caught  fire  and  was  burning  with  terrible 
fury.  The  edifice  was  eight  stories  in  height,  and  built  of  Cleveland 
stone  in  the  most  substantial  manner.  It  occupied  an  entire  block  and 
was  calculated  to  accommodate,  when  completed,  nearly  2,000  guests.  As 
the  flames  rushed  through  its  open  corridors,  mounted  through  its  floors 
and  poured  out  of  its  thousand  windows,  the  spectators  gazed  speechless 
with  awe.  What  a  splendid  spectacle  it  presented,  and  how  forcibly  did 
it  illustrate  how  futile  were  all  appliances  of  man  when  opposed  to  that 
all-consuming  element !  The  flames  roared  with  a  noise  of  Niagara, 
mounting  higher  and  higher,  twisting  and  eddying  in  the  wind,  shooting 
hither  and  thither  like  the  outbursts  of  the  infernal  regions.     Dante,  in 


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his  Inferno,  never  pictured  a  scene  more  appalling  and  harrowing  than 
that  which  was  spread  before  out  the  upturned  gaze  of  the  gathered 
thousands. 

MORE    DEVASTATION. 

The  new  building  of  the  Lakeside  Publishing  Company  was  the  next 
to  fall  a  prey  to  the  firey  element.  It  was  hardly  finished,  but  its  walls 
tottered  and  crumbled  and  fell  within  a  few  moments.  Away  to  the  north 
rushed  the  torrent.  De  Haven  Block,  the  new  Bigelow  House,  just  com- 
pleted and  about  to  be  occupied,  the  two  magnificent  marble  buildings  of 
H.  H.  Honore,  Lombard  block,  the  Post  Office  and  Custom  House,  the 
offices  of  the  Times,  Post,  Staats  Zeitung,  and  Union,  one  after  another 
fell,  burying  beneath  the  ruins  countless  thousands  of  dollars'  worth  of 
property.  From  Van  Buren  street  down  to  Madison  the  fire  confined 
itself  to  the  west  side  of  Dearborn  street,  leaving  the  Sheppard  block,  the 
Tribune  building,  Anderson's  European  Hotel,  MeVicker's  Theatre,  and  a 
large  number  of  business  blocks  to  the  eastward  intact,  and  it  was  hoped 
that  the  line  thus  marked  would  be  saved.  But  all  such  hopes  were 
doomed  to  disappointment.  From  the  Times  office  the  flames  stretched 
across  the  street  and  enveloped  the  Dearborn  Theatre,  the  popular  home 
of  minstrelsy,  from  thence  passed  on  east  and  north',  carrying  everything 
before  it.  From  Portland  Block,  on  the  corner  of  Dearborn  and  Wash- 
ington streets,  the  tongues  of  flame  reached  across  to  Crosby's  mag- 
nificent Opera  House,  that  had  just  been  redecorated  at  a  cost  of  $40,000, 
and  in  les3  than  twenty  minutes,  it  was  numbered  among  the  things 
that  were.  The  St.  James  Hotel,  and  the  long  row  of  six-story  marble 
stores  fronting  on  both  sides  of  State  street  for  a  distance  of  three  blocks, 
followed  in  quick  succession. 

FIELD,    LETTER    &    CO.'S    STORE. 

Day  had  now  broken,  but  served  to  render  more  apparent  the  horror 
of  the  scene.  For  a  long  time  it  was  supposed  that  the  large  store  of 
Field,  Leiter  &  Co.  would  survive  the  terrible  ordeal  The  buildings  sur- 
rounding it  on  every  hand  were  burning  fiercely.  That  alone  seemed  to 
stand  superior  to  the  fire.  For  an  hour  and  a  half  hundreds  of  brave  men 
put  forth  every  energy  to  save  it  from  destruction.  Scores  of  lines  of 
hose  were  employed  to  quench  the  flames  that  ever  and  anon  caught  about 
it.  As  the  walls  of  the  buildings  adjoining  it  fell,  all  danger  was  supposed 
to  have  passed,  and  a  shout  of  joy  arose  from  ten  thousand  throats.  But 
alas!  about  this  time  the  water  works  on  the  north  side  were  burned,  the 
supply  of  water  gave  out,  and  the  building  had  to  be  abandoned  to  its  fate. 
The  fate  soon  overtook  it,  and,  together  witli  almost  all  its  entire  contents, 
consisting  of  goods  valued  at  nearly  three  and  a  half  million  dollars,  it- 
went  down  just  as  thousands  of  less  pretentious  buildings  had  gone  down 
before.  From  here  the  course  'of  the  fire  was  untrammeied.  Aloncj  the 
line,  as  fast  as  gunpowder  could  be  carried  in,  buildings  were  blown  up 
remorselessly.  The  detonations  were  heard  in  every  direction,  and  each 
explosion  told  the  fate  of  some  stately  pile  of  brick  and  mortar.  But  yet 
the  infernal  fire  raged,  all  efforts  to  check  its  progress  being  as  impotent 
as  would  be  the  effort  of  a  fly  to  stop  the  speed  of  a  railroad  train.  All 
northward  and  northeastward  of  the  building  was  leveled  to  the  ground, 
scarce  one  stone  being  left  on  another  to  mark  where  the  most  pretentious 
structures  had  once  stood.  At  last  it  died,  for  there  was  nothing  more  to 
burn,  every  vestige  of  the  lower  part  of  the  city  having  disappeared  in 
smoke  and  ashes. 

ANOTHER  CURRENT  OF  FLAME. 

As  I  have  already  mentioned,  the  last  current  of  the  fire  had  passed 


down  the  west  side  of  Dearborn  street  to  Madison,  and  thence  eastward., 
leaving  a  still  Valuable  portion  of  the  city  unscorehed.  Great  was  the- 
rejoicing  among  the  owners  of  the  buildings  in  that  vicinity  at  the  escape 
of  their  property  from  the  awful  scourge  that  had  swept  all  before  it* 
But  their  rejoicings  were  of  short  duration.  The  lire  to  the  south  had 
extended  across  Clark  street  at  Harrison  to  Fourth  avenue.  Here  a  brave 
band  of  men  assembled  and  worked  hard  to  stay  its  progress,  but  in  vain. 
A  single  engine,  had  water  been  available,  would  have  saved  millions  of 
dollar's  worth  of  property  at  this  point.  Despite  all  efforts,  it  crossed 
the  street,  and,  redoubling  its  fury,  it  ran  shrieking  across  to  State  street, 
carrying  down  the  Orient  and  Howard  Houses,  and  crossing  over  to  the 
avenues.  From  thence  northward  it  course  was  unimpeded.  The  Palmer 
House  presented  a  splendid  objective  point  for  the  names,  and  it  was  soon 
wrapped  in  its  winding  sheet,  its  magnificent  apartments  furnishing  fine 
quarters  in  which  the  remorseless  demon  could  revel.  Still  his  appe- 
tite was  not  satisfied,  and,  craving  for  more,  it  spread  forward.  The 
fire-proof  Tribune  building  seemed  to  be  but  tinder;  McVicker's  splendid 
vespian  temple  furnished  one  of  the  grandest  spectacles  in  this  most  fear- 
ful tragedy,  and  went  off  in  a  blaze  of  glory,  but  the  audience  went  away 
with  the  sad  conviction  that  the  scene  enacted  was  a  terrible  reality  and 
not  a  mere  baseless  fiction  of  the  dramatist's  brain.  Whatever  buildings 
had  escaped  destruction  from  the  two  tornadoes  of  fi-re  that  had  swept 
northward  before  fell  a  prey  to  this  one,  and  not  a  building  remained" 
standing  north  of  Adams  street. 

AGAINST    THE    WIND. 

But  although  all  that  lay  in  the  natural  course  of  the  fire  on  the  south 
side  had  been  destroyed  it  was  not  contented.  From  Adams  street  on 
Wabash  and  Michigan  avenues,  the  lire  commenced  to  burn  southward 
against  the  wind.  Its  progress  was  comparatively. .slow,  and, yet  it  trav- 
eled with  a  rapidity  that  was  terrifying.  For  two  blocks  it  swept  all  be- 
fore it.  Trinity  Episcopal  Church  fell  in  the  general  crash  The  Sisters 
of  Mercy  lost  their  school;  the  Catholic  Cathedral  was  burned,  and  long 
.rows  of  palatial  residences  were  hugged  in  the  greedy-  embraces  of  the 
fire  and  devoured.  Gunpowder  was  again  resorted  to  to  stay  the  names, 
and  this  time  with  better  effect,  A  row  of  marble  fronts  on  Wabash  ave- 
nue, above  Congress  street,  was  blown  to  fragments,  and  the  flames  sub- 
sided. Terrace  liow,  occupying  the  entire  block  between  Yan  Bureu  and 
Congress  streets,  on  Michigan  avehve,  caught  lire  at  the  lower  end  and 
threatened  to  involve  a  still  larger  district  in  destruction.  .But  gallant 
men,  disregardful  of  their  own  liv^gj  shouldered  barrels  of  gunpowder 
find  carried  them  through  the  scorching  heat  and  flying  embers  into  the 
southern  part  of  the  row,  and  the  explosion  th a j>  followed  leveled  it  ts  the 
ground,  and  the  Michigan  Avenue  Hotel  and  Congress  Hall  were  saved. 
This  ended  the  progress  of  the  fire  on  the  south  side,  and  the  city  again 
breathed  free. 

THE  LOSS  O.F  LIFE. 
At  the  present  time  it  is  almost  impossible  to  compute  the  loss  of  life. 
Thus  far  over  250  bodies  have  been  recovered,  and  as  yet  the  ruins  have 
not  been  examined.  All  that  have  been  discovered  have  been  those  who 
were  cut. off  in  the  streets  or  were  found  above  the  mass  of  debries. 
Competent  judges  estimate  that  not  less  than  800  souls  were  burned  to 
death  in  the  hell  through  which  Chicago  has  passed.  It  is  possible  that 
the  number  may  exceed  1,000,  although  many  will  never  be  missed  and 
never  found. 


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THE    SCENES. 

I  will  not  attempt  to  describe  the  seene  connected  with  this  great  calam- 
ity.. The  most  eloquent  tongue  cannot  picture  with  half  the  vividness  of 
reality  the  thousands  of  heartrending  seenes  of  whioh  I  was  a  witness. 
The  very  remembrance  of  them  makes  me  sick  at  heart.  Thousands  of 
families  were  rendered  homeless,  few  saving  anytaing  except  what  they 
carried  upon  their  backs.  With  no  prospect  ahead  but  starvation,  it  is 
no  wonder  that  many  gave  way  beneath  the  accumulated  horrors  of  the 
fearful  night  of  fire.  The  majority,  however,  acted  with  a  heroism  that 
gave  one  a  higher  aspect  for  humanity.  Those  who  had  not  been  left  en- 
tirely destitute  cheerfully  shared  what  they  had  saved,  with  their  less 
fortunate  neighbors,  and  went  about  seeking  to  relieve  tie  suffering  of 
©thers.  The  many  deeds  of  noble  charity  that  were  developed  in  unlooked 
for  quarters  would  fill  a  volume. 

THE  NOErTH    SIDE. 

But  the  most  painful  and  heart-rending  portion  of  my  narrative  is  yet 
to  come.  The  north  side  of  the  river,  containing  a  population,  according 
to  the  last  census,  of  over  78,000  souls,  was  visited  most  terribly.  Shortly 
after  two  o'clock  on  Monday  morning  the  flames  were  carried  across  the 
ffiver  on  the  high  wind.  This  section  of  the  city  is  mainly  composed  of 
wooden  buildings,  and  is  occupied  for  the  greater  part  by  mechanics  and 
laboring  men  as  residences.  Over  this  region  the  fire  sped  with  the  speed 
of  the  wind.  Those  who  attempted  to  save  their  worldly  goods  met  with 
but  poor  success.  By  far  the  greater  part  barely  escaped  with  their  lives, 
while  hundreds  found  a  winding  sheet  of  flame.  The  first  section  swept 
was  that  between  North  Clark  street  and  the  river.  The  houses  were  but 
Bparcely  settled,  but  notwithstanding  this  fact  the  entire  section  was  a 
mass  of  ruins  before  the  sun  had  risen.  Among  the  prominent  buildings  con- 
sumed were  Rush  Medical  College,  St.  James's  Church  (Rev.  Hugh  Miller 
Thompson's),  the  New  England  Congregational  Church,  Cheny  Church 
(Kev.  RoberL  Colly er's),  the  Clarendon,  Humbolt,  Revere  and  Huber 
Houses,  several  grain  [elevators,  the  Water  Works,  and  numerous  public 
charity  buildings,  and  minor  religious  and  educational  institutions.  But 
it  was  to  the  west  of  Clark  street  that  the  fire  was  most  disastrous.  Here 
it  sped  with  appalling  rapidity.  Hundreds  of  men,  women  and  children 
were  overtaken  in  the  streets  by  the  tongues  of  fire  that  swept  their 
homes  away,  and  as  they  fled  through  the  streets  before  the  mad  flames, 
they  were  hemmed  in.  Many  an  agonized  cry  for  help  went  up  to  heaven, 
and  the  poor  victims  fell  upon  the  pavements,  charred,  blackened  corpses, 
unrecognizable  save  by  Him  who  had  so  suddenly  cnllod  them  to  accouni. 
On  one  street  alone,  on  Tuesday  morning,  I  counted  twenty-three  bodies! 
These  had  all  met  with  death  while  flying  betore  the  fire.  The  entire 
north  side,  with  the  exoeption  of  a  nmall  strip  on  Kinzie  street,  was  swept 
with  the  bosom  of  destruction,  and   but   on*  building,  the   residence   of 


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Win.  B.  Ogden,  on  Franklin  Place,  remains  of  the  22,000  that  covered  the 
area  of  two  and  a  half  square  miles. 

THE:    DESOLA.TIOX. 


THE     GREAT     CALAMITY. 

From  ths  St.  Louis  Democrat,  Oct.  10. 

One  of  those  catastrophes  that  pierce  all  men's  hearts  has  smitten  the 
land.  The  nation  is  in  sudden  mourning.  Bereavement  black  and  bitter- 
overshadows  us,  in  the  destructive  prostration  of  a  great  city.  It  is 
a  visitation  too  terrible  for  words — almost  too  appalling  for  reflection. 
Wherever  lives  a  sympathetic  soul,  there  is  distress  for  the  agony  that 
overwhelms  so  many  hundreds  of  thousands  of  our  fellows. 

None  may  attempt  to  measure  the  interests,  the  happiness,  the  treasured 
eares,  the  points  of  self-denying  tbil/the  harvests  of  generations  of  sacri- 
fice and  labor,  bound  up  in  the  safety  of  a  metropolis.  Who  can  bear  to 
dwell  upon  the  thought  that,  though  all  those  to-day  are  shining  in 
glorious  strength,  to-morrow  they  may  be  but  smoking  ashes  ? 

Let  us  be  excused  from  portraying  the  heart-anguish  of  the  stricken 
multitudes  who  but  lately  were  rejoicing  in  the  thrifty  homes  of  Chicago. 
It  is  too  sad  a  picture.  But  let  it  be  remembered.  Let  it  be  not  forgotten 
that  thousands  of  families  have  suddenly  been  hurled  from  affluence  to 
poverty,  tens  of  thousands  from  competency  to  indigence,  and  wherever 
in  St.  Louis  or  elsewhere  a  citizen  is  fighting  or  haply  thinks  he  had  won 
life's  battle  for  himself  and  his  home-circle,  let  him,  in  Heaven's  name, 
send  what  help  he  can  to  the  suiFerers  in  the  Late  City. 

The  material  disaster  to  our  sister  city  cannot  now  be  computed.  The 
later  dispatches  will  convey  a  better  impression  of  it  than  can  otherwise 
be  given.  The  main  business  portion  of  the  queenly  metropolis  of  Illinois 
is  in  ruins.  All  the  finest  buildings  in  the  city,  the  trade  palaces,  the 
wholesale  establishments  and  their  contents,  the  entire  business  portion, 
and  a  host  of  minor  structures,  are  all  gone.  The  loss  will  be  stated  at 
hundreds  of  millions,  and  will  be  felt  over  the  world.  It  is  a  dreadful 
blow  to  a  swiftly  growing  city,  but  they  are  mistaken  who  think  it  will 
prove  fatal.  Chicago  has  been  the  world's  wonder  in  her  rise,  and  she  is 
now  the  world's  sad  wonder  in  almost  unprecedented  calamity.  She  will 
now  astonish  by  the  rapidity  and  success  of  her  recuperation.  One  year 
hence  will  witness  orderly  arrays  of  new  and  grander  piles  in  place  of 
those  that  are  now  smouldering  in  blackness. 

It  is  thirty-four  years  since  Chicago  became  a  city,  with  a  population 
of  some  four  thousand.     Her  growth  is  shown  in  the  following  table : 

Pop.  Assessed  Vol. 

1840  --------      4,470  $          94,437 

1845  --------     12,088  8,065,022 

1850  -------     -     28,369  7,220,249 

1855  ---.-----     80,023  26,922,893 

I860  --------  109,263  37,053,512 

1865 187,446  64,709,177 

1870  - 298.977  223,634,690 

Tke  energies  that  have  effected  those  results  will  but  gather  fresh  force 
and  new  volume  from  the  present  temporary  check.  Capital  from  abroad 
eagerly  rush  in  to  build  upon  the  old  foundations  and  to  occupy  sites  that 
have  proved  to  be  so  golden.  But  the  absolute  loss  to  the  wealth  and  in- 
dustry of  the  country  will  be  irreparable.  It  will  bankrupt  millionaires. 
Insurance  companies  that  have  battled  the  billows  of  fire  for  decades  will 


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go  down  before  the  storm.  Mercantile  houses  by  the  scores  will  fail. 
There  will  be  ruined  and  wrecked  fortunes  by  the  hundreds,  Armies  of 
creditors  will  look  for  their  dues  in  vain.  The  whole  agricultural  region 
tributary  to  and  in  turn  supplied  by  Chicago  will  suffer.  The  centres  of 
oapital  in  the  East  will  tremble,  and  the  shock  will  be  felt  throughout  the 
country.  If  any  imagine  that  from  the  disaster  to  Chicago  and  the  North- 
west other  cities  and  sections  will  permanently  gain  they  are  mistaken. 
While  there  may  be  a  temporary  diversion  of  business,  and  some  variation 
in  the  channels  of  trade,  the  community  as  a  whole,  in  all  sections,  can 
only  suffer  for  so  material  a  subtraction  from  the  total  prosperity  of  the 
country. 

Chicago  enterprise  has  become  proverbial,  and  -this  reputation  of  her 
citizens  has  been  well  earned.  An  instance  of  it  is  related  in  the  fact  that 
a  number  of  her  citizens  have  recently  been  designing  a  Fair  Association, 
intended  for  a  permanency  and  growth. like  that  of  the  St.  Louis  institu- 
tion of  the  kind.  But  a  few  days  ago  a  St.  Lousian  of  long  experience  in 
the  conduct  of  those  matters  received  a  liberal  offer  to  go  to  Chicago,  and 
there  organize  an  Exposition  establishment.  This  was  only  one  of  the 
new  plans  with  which  Chicago  heads  were  busy  when  the  dreadful  blow 
of  Saturday  and  Sunday  came.  The  destruction  of  the  rising  Palace 
Hotel,  the  future  Lindell  of  the  Lake  City,  is  but  an  item  of  her  loss.  Sad 
indeed  are  these  reminiscences  of  a  prosperity  so  gigantic  and  so  hopeful, 
blasted  by  a  blight  so  cruel.     It  can  only  be  felt  as  a  common  calamity. 


THE     CHICAGO     CALAMITY. 

From  the  Cincinnati  Commercial,  Oct.  10. 
Since  the  burning  of  Moscow  there  has  been  no  conflagration  anywhere 
in  the  world  so  sublime  and  appalling  as  that  in  Chicago  Sunday  night 
and  yesterday.  The  memorable  great  fire  in  New  York,  in  December, 
1835,  destroyed  property  to  the  value,  it  was  estimated,  of  over  thirty 
millions.  The  other  great  fires  in  this  country  have  been  those  of  Pitts- 
burg and  Portland,  Maine.  The  Chicago  calamity  is  greater  than  all 
combined.  The  amount  of  loss  is  all  guess  work,  but  there  can  be  no 
doubt  that  it  exceeds  one  hundred  millions  of  dollars.  The  most  valuable 
portion  of  the  city  is  destroyed.  It  is  as  if  in  Cincinnati,  a  fire  commenc- 
ing in  the  extreme  East  End  should  make  a  clean  sweep  of  everything 
between  Seventh  street  and  the  river,  westward  of  Mill  Creek.  The  ter- 
rors of  such  a  desolation,  the  details  of  such  a  miy51ity  agony,  are  incon- 
ceivable. The  calamity  touches  the  heart  of  tii-.1  nation.  The  telegraph 
wires  are  busily  transmitting  despatches  conveying  io  the  sufferers  as- 
surances of  the  deepest  sympathy,  and  offers  of  assistance,  and  informa- 
tion that  help  is  on  the  way.  Oar  local  columns  sbow  how  the  people  of 
Cincinnati  were  moved  and  how  energetically  they  acted. 

Last  evening  we  had  three  steam  fire-engines  in  Chicago,  and  we  may 
be  sure  they  were  a  welcome  reinforcement  to  the  exhausted  firemen  of 
that  city.  Early  this  morning  a  train  loaded  with  blankets,  clothing  and 
provisions,  will  reach  the  scene  of  desolation,  and  no  doubt  the  ten  thou- 
sand blankets  and  fifty  thousand  loaves  of  bread  will  be  well  placed. 
Dispatches  from  all  the  cities  in  the  country  show  that  they  are  in  action 
as  we  are.  Happily  the  railroads,  of  which  Chicago  is  such  a  great  centre, 
will  serve  speedily  to  relieve  the  immediate  necessities  of  her  homeless 
people. 

The  shock  of  this  dreadful  disaster  will  be  felt  in  commercial  circles 
around  the  world.  So  intimately  are  the  interests  of  the  various  mercan- 
tile communities  associated,  that   a  tremendous  catastrophe   like   that  in 


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Ghieago  must  sensibly  affect  all.  Our  insurance  companies  suffer  heavily. 
The  bankers  are  considerable  losers.  Many  lofty  houses  in  New  York 
and  Boston  will  be  shaken  to  their  foundations,  and  some  of  them  no 
doubt  fall,  for  there  were  vast  investments  of  New  York  and  Boston 
money  in  Chicago.  The  stock  of  railroads  centering  in  Chicago  declined 
10  per  cent.,  yesterday,  in  New  York.  A  good  many  of  the  insurance 
companies  are  undoubtedly  ruined,  and  it  is  not  unlikely  that  the  rates  of 
insurance  will  be  advanced. 

The  relations  of  Cincinnati  with  Chicago  were  those  of  contiguous 
neighborhoods.  There  is  hardly  a  family  in  this  city  that  does  not  num- 
ber in  Chicago  relatives  and  dear  friends,  and  the  impossibility  of  hearing 
from  them  during  the  tedious  and  distressing  hours  of  yesterday, 
sharpened  our  sense  of  calamity.  One  might  telegraph,  but  where  could 
a  dispatch  reach  a  friend  in  the  horrible  ruins,  or  the  innumerable 
multitude  of  wanderers  in  the  streets  ?  Many  must  have  perished  in  the 
awful  torrent  which  swept  over  the  place  as  if  the  Niagara  rapids  were  all 
flames  and  moving  through  the  doomed  city.  The  sick,  the  delicate,  the 
aged,  tha little  children  hurried  at  midnight  into  the  blazing  streets;  and 
it  is  certain  that  many  lives  were  lost,  and  that  many  more  have  lost 
health  and  perhaps  reason  itself. 

Chicago,  we  predict,  will  arise  from  her  ashes  a  grander  city  than  ever, 
chastened  by  her  calamity,  and  by  experience  grow  less  confident  in 
startling  rapidity  of  progress,  and  more  content  with  gradual  returns  and 
solid  gains. 

ITEMS    OF    INTEREST. 


THE    ACADEMY    OF    DESIGN. 

Much  interest  centered  in  the  Academy  of  Design  Building  owing  to 
the  art  treasures  collected  there.  The  artists  worked  heroically  but  their 
efforts  were  of  little  avail  owing  to  the  impossibility  of  getting  means  of 
transportation.  The  battle  of  Gettysburg,  Rothermel's  historical  picture 
was  taken  out  by  cutting  it,  and  we  are  specially  informed  that  it  is  safe 
and  will  shortly  be  shipped  to  the  artist  who  owns  it.  The  large  group 
of  J.  W.  Doan's  family,  painted  by  Pine  and  Vok's  bust  of  N.  0.  Stone 
were  also  saved.  The  two  architectural  pictures  by  Neal  of  Munich,  which 
have  been  in  the  gallery  so  long,  were  only  recently  shipped  to  Yale  col- 
lege. Gudin's  large  marine,  a  large  picture  by  Bierstadt,  nearly  all  the 
small  pictures  in  the  gallery,  and  the  casts,  including  the  Seammon  collec- 
tion, forwarded  from  Italy,  were  lost.  There  were  about  three  hundred 
pictures  in  the  gallery  in  all.  Those  of  the  artists-  who  saved  most  of 
their  works  were  Elkins,  Rockwell,  and  Ford.  Those  who  lost  everything 
are  Jenks,  J.  IT.  S.  Reed,  Pebbles,  Brury,  Coggswell,  and  Bradish.  Mr. 
Dichl  saved  his  picture  of  Macbeth. 

The  building  belonged  to  Jonathan  Clark,  and  the  academy  took  posses- 
sion on  the  1st  of  last  November. 

THE    OPERA    HOUSE    GALLERY. 

Mr.  Aitken,  the  Superintendent  of  the  Opera  House  Aat  Gallery,  for- 
tunately had  means  of  transportation  at  hand  and  saved  nearly  every 
picture  in  the  gallery,  in  addition  to  the  fine  collection  in  Mr.  Crosby's 
private  rooms. 


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A  HAPPY  FAMILY. 

In  the  following  eireumsiance  there  was  something  like  the  awakening 
from  a  horrid  dream  "to  find  it  all  a  dream."  Mr.  Ferd.  S.  Winslow, 
the  well-known  banker,  owned  a  beautiful  residence  and  grounds  nearly 
opposite  to  Wright's  Grove — a  little  paradise,  in  which  he  had  taken  par- 
ticular pride.  At  the  near  approach  of  the  fire  one  of  the  neighbors 
urged  Mr.  Winslow's  family  to  betake  themselves  to  their  carriage  and 
flee.  They  did  so.  They  fled  for  their  lives,  and,  along  with  thousands 
of  others,  sought  the  bleak  praries,  where  they  camped  out  for  the  night. 
Yesterday  mornink  Mr.  W.  wandered  back  to  gaze  upon  the  ruins  of  his 
happy  home,  when  lo  !  there  burst  upon  his  astonished  vision,  a  green  oasis 
in  the  desert.  It  wTas  his  old  home,  unscathed.  The  fire  had  swept  clean 
round  it,  missing  it  miraculously.  The  happy  family  returned,  taking 
many  sufferers  along  with  them.  And  their  friends  have  rejoiced  ex- 
ceedingly. 

A     CURIOSITY. 

A  vase  of  wax  flowers  was  taken  from  the  vault  of  the  Hess  House,  on 
Dearborn  street,  yesterday  and  was  found  perfect,  not  having  been  injured 
in  the  least.  From  another  safe  on  Dearborn  street  was  taken  a  box  of 
watches,  as  new  in  appearance  as  when  turned  out  of  the  factory. 


BUSINESS       DIRBCTOEY       OW       miJRMS       THAT 

WERE   BTJJRJNTT    OTJT. 


MICHIGAN     AVENUE. 

No.  746.  C.  L.  Reil  &  Co. 

No.  735.  T.  W.  Anderson. 

No.  735.  J.  W.  Doane  &  Co. 

No.  733.  D.  W.  &  Keith  &  Co. 

No.  716.  Seeberger  &  Breakey. 

No.  679.  Taylor  &  Wright. 

No.  680.  Hurlbut  &  Edsall. 

No.  631.  C.  W.  Church  &  Co. 

No/~619.  J.  H.  Rees  &  Co. 

No.  618.  Schwab,  McQuaid  &  Co. 

No.  618.  A.  Klieman  &  Co. 

No.  607.  A.  Booth. 

No.  606.  C.  Kellogg  &  Co. 

No.  585.  Win.  M.  Mayo  k  Co. 

No.  539.  Beck  &  Worth. 

No.  505    Davis  &  Requ*. 

No.  498.  Russell  Bros. 

No.  496.  W.  M.  Soribner. 


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Ho.  496.  Woolworth,  Ainsworth  &  Co. 

No.  491.  Occidental  Insurance  Company. 

No,  491.  Stettaur  &  Wineman. 

No.  472.  Leopold  Kuh. 

No.  453.  Mosebaeh  &  Humphrey. 

No.  446.  Dr.  S.  Cole. 

No.  419.  Gage  Bros. 

No.  413.  J.  Esaias  Warren. 

No.  398.  Whiting,  Taylor  &  Co. 

No.  3%.  Harmon,  Messer  &  Co. 

No.  390.  Wm.  H.  Keogh. 

No.  388.  E.  Eldred. 

No.  372.  0.  L.  American  &  Co. 

No.  370.  Leopold  &  Austrian. 

No.  369.  Drs.  Starkweather,  Holmes  &  AdolpliUJ 

No.  363.  Miller,  Frost  &  Sewin. 

No.  337.  C.  M.  Henderson. 

No.  335.  Gray  Bros. 

No.  330.  Turner,  Bristol  &  Bay. 

No.  300.  G.  E.  Cook  &  Co. 

No.  299.  A.  Ballard. 

No.  299.  Hopeon  &  Co. 

No.  288.  Hamlin,  Hale  &  Co. 

No.  285.  Charles  Joeger. 

No.  270.  Julius  Bauer. 

No.  267.  Hoyne,  Horton  &  Hoyne. 

No.  247.  J.  Freer. 

No.  247.  L.  C.  P.  Freer. 

No.  228.  W.  B.  Keen  &  Co. 

No.  225.  Merchant's  National  Bank. 

No.  223.  Cook  County  National  Bank. 

No.  223,  H.  H.  Jlonore. 

No.  222.  H.  M.  Wilmarth  &  Co. 

No.  218.  A.  Klenkke. 


WABASH     AVENUE. 

No.  976.  J.  H.  Ross. 

No.  976.  J.  Mattocks. 

No.  973.  Tieman  (surgical  instalments.) 

No.  961.  Lindauer  &  Co. 

No.  931  Wilson  Bros. 

No.  903.  R.  J.  Walthe. 

No.  89S.  Se&vey  &  C*. 

No.  89.1  Field,  Benedict  k  ®*. 


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No.  882.  J.  &  A.  Boskowicz. 

No.  857.  Stanton  &  Co. 

No.  848.  Richards,  Crunibaugh  &  Shaw. 

No.  846.  Loomis  &  Co. 

No.  807.  S.  Kaprowicz. 

No.  800.  J.  S.  Marsh. 

No.  758.  C.  H.  Backwith  &  Co. 

No.  747.  Simon,  Meyer,  Strauss  &  Co. 

No.  746.  Gillespie  &  Murfey. 

No.  735.  Goldman  Bros. 

No.  733.  Bernhardt  &  Foreman. 

No.  738.  Allen  &  Mackey. 

No.  714.  T.  W.  Weber  &  Co. 

No.  709.  Dr.  Nute. 

No.  707.  A.  J.  Marks. 

No.  707.  M.Williams. 

No.  705.  J.  M.  Gillespie. 

No.  706.  Rea  &€oates. 

No.   694.  James  C.  Simm. 

No.  692.  J.  H.  O'Brien. 

No.  685.  A.  Frisbie  &  Co. 

No.  685.  Massachusetts  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company 

No.  686.  Wendell  &  Hyman. 

No.  672.  Cobb,  Andrews  &  Co. 

No.  659.  Brown  &  Prior. 

No.  659.  Matthews  &  Mason. 

No.  657.  Edward  Ely. 

No.  654.  E.  G.  L.  Faxon. 

No.  618.  M.D.Wells  &  Co. 

No.  617.  O.  L.  Wheelock. 

No.  613.  C.  H.  Fargo  &  Co. 

No.  612.  J.  S.  Shaap. 

No.  610.  A.  &  H.  Kohn. 

No.  607.  S.  C.  Griggs  &Co. 

No.  605.  E.  S.  Alexander  &  C&. 

No.  606.  Dr.  J.  V.  Z.  Blaney. 

No.  606.  W.  R.  Page. 

No.  600.  A.  J.  Avcrell. 

No.  696.  Wrisley  Bros. 

No.  592.   Marston,  Peck  &  Bros. 

No.  586.  Washington  Life  Insurance  Company . 

No.  584.  W.  F.  McLaughlin. 

No.  571.  H.  A.  Kohn  &  Broa. 

No.  565.  Eiiclfc  Co. 


No.  562.  E.  A.  Jessel  &  Co. 

No.  580,  General  Sheridan's  Headquarters. 

No  554  Williams  &  Thompson 

No  554  E  S  Isham 

No  547  King  Brothers  &  Co 

No  543  Union  National  Banks 

No  543  Fuller  &  Smith 

No  543  National  Bank  of  Commerce 

No  537  H  Underwood  &  Son 

No  537  J  E  Lockwood 

No  532  Commercial  National  Bank 

No  522  Daggett,  Bassctt  &  Hills 

No  520  American  Express  Company,  General  Office 

No  510  Holden  &  Co 

No  498  Bishop  &  Barnes 

No  490  Snydacker  &  Co 

No  449  Gallup  &  Peabody 

No  449  First  National  Bank 

No  447  Traders'  National  Bank 

No  436  Hall,  Kimbark  &  Co 

No  393  E  G  Dunn  &  Co 

No  381  Hutchinson  &  Lubb 

No  381  0  D  Orvis  &  Co 

No  384  B  P  Hutchinson 

No  376  A  B  Meeker 

No  374  C  &  A  Price 

No  379  Connecticut  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company 

No  369  A  W  &  J  M  Wetkerell 

No  365  W  B  Clapp  &  Brothers 

No  364  Stark  &  Allen 

Fo  360  C  A  Gregory 

No  360  Bowen  Brothers 

No  350  Sugg  &  Beiersdorff 


STATE     STREET. 

No  977  W  E  Eastman 
No  961  Barker  &  Wait 
No  945  Henry  C  Smith 
No  890  B  F  Jacobs  &  Co 
No  851  F  A  Bragg  &  Co 
Eo  819  Buck  &  Rayner 
No  812  N  Sherwood  &  Co 
No  807  Blanchard  &  Co 
No  783  Hadley  Brothers 


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No  781  Clinton  Wire  Cloth  Company 

No  750  George  D  Cook 

No  663  Barry  &  dishing 

No  595  W  T  Noble 

No  583  Intelligence  Office  for  the  lost 

No  551  Wadhams,  Willard  &  Co 

No  479  Roche,  Goldstein  &  Powell 

No  427  Troost  &  Co 

No  409  Cafe  de  l'Europe 

No  405  S  Marcus 

No  384  Armstrong  &  Co 

No  376  Clarke,  Layton  &  Co 

No  371  Atlantic  and  Pacific  Telegraph  Company 

No  863  Cook  &  McLain 

ADDENDA. 


S.  S.  Fitch  &  Co.,  opposite  late  Po3t  Office. 
Keen  &  Cook,  Dearborn  Park. 
W,  D.  Kerfoot,  on  the  old  plaee. 
J.  F.  Forsyth  &  Co.,  46  Desplaines  St. 
Culver,  Page,  Hoyne  &  Co,,  11,  13,  15  Desplaines  St. 
American  Insurance  Co.,  11,  13,  15  Desplaines  St. 
Wheeler  &  Wilson,  338  W.  Madison. 
Weed  Sewing  Machine  Co.,  196  W.  Madison. 
Western  News  Co.,  95,  97,  99  W.  Randolph. 
Henry  W.  King  &  Co.,  24  Market  St. 
W.  W.  Kimball,  610  Michigan  Av. 
J.  Bauer  &  Co.,  270  Michigan  At. 
Chicago  Soale  Co.,  46  S.  Desplaines  St. 
Pinkerton's,  55  W.  Washington. 
Page  Bros.  &  Co.,  35  &  37  S,  Canal  St. 
J.  F.  Rathbono  &  Co.,  30  &  32  S.  Canal  St. 
Wm.  Blair  &  Co.,  30  &  32  S.  Canal  St. 
£  F.  Hollister  &  Co.,  10  &  12  S.  Canal  St. 
A.  L.  Hale  &  Bro.,  10,  12,  14,  16  N.  Canal  St. 
A.  H.  Andrews  &  Co.,  82,  119,  121  W.  Washington 
U,  S.  Express,  59  &  61  W.  Washington 
Diebold  &  Kienzle,  Safos,  446  State. 
A.  H.  Miller,  479  Wabash  Are, 
Chandler  &  Boynton,  49  S.  Canal  St. 
Haas  k  Power,  25  to  30  W.  Madison  St. 

I).  M.  Ford  Manufacturing  Co.,  50  to  62  W.   Washington  St,,  &  47 
t-©  55  Cliuten  St. 


DIEECTOEY 


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Morgan   &   English,  102  West  Ran- 
dolph st 
Eldridge    &    Tourtelotte,    118   West 
Madison  st  and  cor  Wabash  av  and 
Twenty-second  st 
Josiah  H  Bissell,  54  West  Randolph  st 
Goudy  &  Chandler,  391  Wabash  av 
Herbert  &  Quick,  529  State  st 
Robb  &  Ackerman,  132  Madison  st 
E  S  Jenison,  669  State  st 
Doggett,  Bassett  &  Hills,  522  Wabash 

av 
C  H  Fargo  &  Co.,  613  Wabash  av 
Dr  Price's  Cream  Baking  Powder,  47 

and  49  West  Lake  st 
First  National,  449  Wabash  av 
Fourth  National,  475  Wabash,  av 
Fifth  National,  449  Wabash  av 
Manufacturers,  454  Wabash  av 
Nation  Bank  of  Commerce,  543  Wa- 
bash av 
Union  National  Bank,  543  Wabash  av 
Commercial  National  Bank,  532  Wa- 
bash av 
Hibernian  Banking  Association,  446 

Wabash  av 
Lunt,    Preston    &    Kean,    southwest 
corner  of  Halsted  and  Randolph  sts 
Northwestern    National    Bank,    526 

Wabash  av 
McDonough,  Price  &  Co  ,   31  and  33 

South  Canal  st 
Rock    River    Paper   Co.,    55   North 

Jefferson  st 
€oan  .&  Ten   Broeke,   cor  Ann  and 

West  Randolph  sts 
Miner  T  Ames  &  Co.,   1  W  Randolph 
E  F  Hollister  &  Co.,  10  and  12  North 

Canal  si 
Allen  &  Mackey,  744  State  st 
Henry  W  King  &  Co.,  24  Market  st 
Leopold,  Kuhn  &  Co.,   472  Michigan 

av 
Tuttle,    Thompson   &  Wetmore,    459 

Wabash  av 
John  McCafferey,  President   Paving 
co.,  Washington  st 


Union  Akron,  southwest  corner  Rand 

and  Halstead  sts 
II  P  Merrill  &  Co.,  407  W  Madison  st 
Z  M  Hall    (produce),    259  and  261  E 

Randolph  st 
Bensleys    Wagner    (produce),  77   W 

Madison  st 
Culver  &  Co    (produce),    36  S  Canal 

st 
A  M  Wright  &  Co.  (produce),  SW  cor 

Canal  and  Lake  sts 
Piatt,   Thorn  &  Maynard  (produce), 

9  and  11  N  Canal  st 
P  B  Weare  &  Co.    (produce),  25  and 

27  N  Clinton  st 
Mc Williams  &  Co.  (produce),  88  W 

Randolph  st 
Cyrus  Bowers  Williams  (produce),  88 

W  Randolph  st 
B  M   Ford  &  Co.    (highwines),  25  S 

Canal  st 
F  M  Clements  &  Co.  (lumber),    30  N 

Canal  st 
Curtis  &  Carter  (dried  fruit),  80  and 

82  W  Randolph  st 
Francis  &  Webber,  53   and  60  West 

Madison  st 
O  W   Butts  &  Bros.,    179  W  Lake  st 
C  C  Butts  &  Co.,  122  W  Lake  st 
E  Seckel  &  co.,  99  W  Lake  st 
Theo  B  Wells  &  Co.,  99'  W  Lake  st 
Eagle,  Campbell  &  Peach,  90  W  Lake 

st 
Linn  &  Kirk,  68  W  Lake  st 
A  F  Dickinson,  50  W  Lake  st 
Quinn,    Swift   &  Co.    (flour),    34   N 

Canal  st 
Pinkerton's,  55  W  Washington  st 
Wm  McGregor,  23  S  Canal  st 
C  &  G   Cooper  &  Co.,    10  and  12  W 

Randolph  st 
Garden  City,  122  W  Lake  st,  and  190 

Twenty-second  st 
United  States  Express,    59  and  61  W 

Washington  st 
C  H  Hanson,  54  W  Madison  st 
M  Graff  &  Co.,  123  W  Madison  st 


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C  E  Chase  &  Co  ,  SW  cor  Randolph 

and  Halstead  sts 
A  L  Hale  &  Co.,  10,  12,   14  and  16  N 

Canal  st 
Thayer  &  Tobey  Furniture  Co  ,  80  to 

92  W  Randolph  st 
Peter  Schuttler,  103  and  109  S  Canal 

st 
Day,  Allen  &  Co  ,  681  Michigan  av 
Sibley  &  Endicott,    774  Wabash  av 
J  K  Botsford  &  Son,  461    Wabash  av 
Chandler  &  Boyington,  49  S  Canal  st 
Martin  &  Leonard,  125  W  Madison  st 
0  W  Barrett  &  Co.,    9  S  Halstead   st 
Ogden,  Sheldon  &  Scudder,  62  S  Canal 

st 
E  B  Ryan  &  Co.,  45  and  47  S  Canal  st 
Berkshire,  70  S  canal  st 
Knickerbocker,  SWcor  Randolph  and 

Halstead  sts 
Ecletic,  SW   cor   Halstead  and   Ran- 
dolph sts 
Kirk,  Coleman  &  Co  ,  24  S  canal  st 
Hall,  Kimbark  &  Co.,  436  Wabash  av 
Theo   David    M'  Ford,  50    to    62  W 

Washington    st.    and   47    to   55   S 

Clinton  st 
J  M  Br&street  &  Son,   36  canal  st 
A  H  Miller,  479  Wabash  av 
Connecticut  Mutual  Life,  379  Wabash 

av 
Norton  &  Fancher,  63  and  05  S  canal 

st 
Dickinson,  Leach  &  Co  ,  25  S  canal  st 
Caliaghan  &  Crockcroft,  121  W  Ran- 
dolph st 
Munson  &  Co.,  14  and  16  canal  st 
Haas  .&  Powell,  25  to  31   W   Madison 

st      ' 
Page  Bro    &  Co.,    35  and  37   canal  st 
Blackburd  &  Bro.,  27  S  canal  st 
J  Davis  Wilder,  278  W  Randolph  st 
H  W  &  J  M  Wetherell,   369    Wabash 

av 
Eclectic  Match  Co.,  97  W  Madison  st 
Matthews  &  Mason,  659  Wabash  av 
Kcnly  &  Jenkins,  34  N- canal  st 
A  Booth,  607  Michigan  av 
F  J  Ruth,  85  and  87  S  canal  st 
D  D  Mallory  &  Co.,  114  W  Randolph 

st 
II  M  Sherwood,  103  to  109  S  canal  st 
A  H  Andrews  &  Co.,   119  and   121  W 

Washington  St 
Northwest  Paper  Co.,  87  W  Lake  st 
Office  of  ii  Hoe  &  Co.,  of   New  York', 

at  <V.-:n»;o   Newspaper    Union,  18 

N    Jefferson  st.      W    H   Kerkhoff, 

Agent.. 
W  W  Kimball,  610  Michigan  av 


J  Bauer  &  co.,  870  Michigan  av 

"  The  Spectator,"  450  State  st 

W  H  Patterson,  121  W  Randolph  st 

Marsh  &  Goodridge,   S  W    cor  canal 

and  Lake  sts 
Isaac  R  Hitt,  2§0  W  Randolph  st 
S  II  Kerfoot  &  co  ,  43  and  45  W  Lake 

st 
Blanchard  Bros.,  807  State  st 
-Snyder  &  Le"e.   9  S  Halstead  and  cor 
of  Monroe  and  LaSalle  sts,  Nixon's 
Building 
Baird  &  Bradley,  68  S  canal  st 
G  S  Hubbard,  Jr.,  70  S  canal  st 
Ogden,    Sheldon    &    Scudder,    62    S 

canal  st 
Henry    Whipple  &  co.,   SW  cor  Ran- 
dolph and  Halstead  sts 
A   Kovats,   S  vV     cor    Randolph    and 

Halstead  sts 
Michigan    Central,   foot    of   Twenty- 
second  st;   ticket  office,   cor   canal 
and  Madison  sts 
Herring  &  co.,  cor    of   Fourteenth  pt 

and  Indiana  av 
Scoville  &  Harvey,  368  Wabash  av 
S  Boyles,  office,  183  Park  av 
Home  Shuttle  Sewing  Machines,  NE 

cor  Madison  and  Sangamon  sts 
Charles  J  L  Mayer,   S  E  cor  W  Lake 

and  canal  sts 
Brigham  &  Jones,   14  W  Randolph  st 
Fairbanks,    Greenleaf    &    co.,   11   S 

canal  st 
J  F  Forsyth  ft  co.,  46  S  Desplaines  st 
Chicago  Scale  co.,  34  and  36  W  Wash- 
ington st 
Finigan,  261  E  Randolph  st 
11  Hanson,  54  W  Madison  st 
Culver,  Page,   Hoyne  &  co.,   11,^13, 

and  15  N  Desplaines  st 
Smeal,  Rebanks  &  co.,  45  W  Washing- 
ton st 
John  II  Small  &  co.,  27  S  canal  st  . 
The  Western  News  Company,  95,  97, 

and  99  AV  Randolph  st 
Cameron,  Amberg  &  Hoffman,   16  W 

Randolph  st 
Diebold  &  Kienzles,  446  State  st 
Riley  &  Brandinmoure,  49  N  Jeffer- 
son st 
J  F    Rathbornc    &  co.,    30   and  82  S 

canal  st 
Sprague,   Warner  ,S:  co.,  28   S  canal 

st  . . 
Z  M   Hail,    259  and   261  E  Randolph 

st 
Wm  Blair  &  co.,  30  and  32  S  canal  st 
Britnell,  Terry  &  Bejden,  57  W  Lake 


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